The Week Junior: Inspiring reading
The Week Junior has been inspiring children to read since 2015. Our weekly Book Club section features the latest children’s books, interviews with authors and illustrators, reader reviews and recommendations. Our Book Awards celebrate the very best children’s books while our Book Festival, during October half term, brings books to life with author events, activities and workshops for children of all ages.
This summer we’re thrilled to bring you a wealth of exciting activities, resources and competitions to help your child discover the power of reading for pleasure. Dive into a world where every page turns into an adventure and every story unlocks their imagination.
Explore our site, join the fun, and together, let's make reading your child's superpower.
Activities
We’ve compiled some of the best and exciting activities from our Summer of Reading issues that you can do at home, to help keep your curious young minds exploring, learning and creating.
Inspiring Reading
Need reading inspiration? Take a look at the expertly-selected books shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards. There’s something there for every child.
Competition
Celebrate our Summer of Reading challenge with an exciting opportunity to win a WHSmith hamper worth £500 PLUS four tickets to The Week Junior Book Festival in October.
Make reading their superpower
This summer, we're inviting your child to join our Summer of Reading mission and discover the superpower of books and the benefits of reading for pleasure! Take a look at the expertly selected books shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards -– there’s something there to inspire every child.
Getting stuck into a good book not only boosts literacy skills and combats summer learning loss, but it also cultivates a lifelong love of reading that will last a lifetime.
So, encourage your young heroes to grab a book, unleash their imagination, escape into magical worlds, meet incredible characters and embark on exciting literary adventures!
The Week Junior Book Awards
Showcasing a brilliant selection of children's books, the awards offer parents a guide to the titles that our experts believe will help create a love of reading that will last a lifetime.
There are 14 book awards to be won altogether including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novel, animals and nature and audiobooks.
The winners will be decided by judges including the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho, author and illustrator Nadia Shireen, TV presenters Ricky Boleto and Jess French, journalist Carl Anka and the Comics Laureate, Bobby Joseph.
We’re also inviting YOU to be a judge and there are two awards where your vote counts. The first is the Children’s Book Cover of the Year Award and the second is our brand new Children’s Choice Award. We hope you will accept our invitation to help decide the winners of these trophies – your opinion is the most important of all.
The winners will be announced on 30 September 2024.
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Our partners
The Week Junior’s Inspiring Reading is supported by WHSmith, the School Library Association, Barnes Children’s Literature Festival, The Bookseller, World Book Day and LoveReading.
Find out more about our Summer of Reading partners here.
Find out more about The Week Junior Book Awards partners here.
